Friday, April 11, 2014

Giveaway! I for isosceles and K for kidsmathteacher!

Hey everyone! I'm finally having my blogiversary giveaway!

But first, I am a day behind on the A to Z blogging challenge so I am doubling up today with I and K.

I is for isosceles! Okay, call me funny but I love triangles. I thought it was so neat when I found out in junior high that there were different names for them and all about the angles and sides. Here is how I would have drawn an isosceles triangle before I knew about the cool shortcuts (on the left). Then on the right is with the equilateral marks (looks so much better!).

A fun triangle activity to do with kids is take any line segment (like a 10" thin strip of paper) and cut it twice to make 3 sections and put the ends together to form a triangle. See how everyone's triangle is different! Do the kids know that the interior angles of all of their triangles adds up to 180 degrees?

Now onto K--for Kids Math Teacher! Okay, I was thinking of doing kite (another geometry term) but then I decided to highlight my blogiversary. A lot has happened over the last year and I never really thought I would have accomplished so much. There were days when a lot got done and other days that weren't nearly as productive, but the year went well!

In the past year...

I designed and continued to make my blog design a little better (I did it myself--and that was a big learning curve).

I opened up shops on TpT, TN, and BST

I started a Pinterest account

Made a facebook fan page

Learned how to do more graphic design work (I knew a little)

Worked on revising several manuscripts and selling one as a printable book.